Robert Vaughn Quotes
I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
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Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'
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President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.
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'In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.'
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I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...
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And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
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Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.
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I don't play basketball for the money. I don't play it for the crowd. When I didn't have a friend, when I was lonely, I always knew I could grab that orange pill and go hoop. I could go and dunk on somebody. If things weren't going right, I could make a basket and feel better.
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I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.
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The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.
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I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.
